(WFAA) - It's safe to say Sgt. Jimmy Combs didn't expect his Wednesday night patrol to end with performing CPR after helping rescue a 13-year-old girl from a raging house fire. That's part of being a cop in Tarrant County. "Ya' never know what will happen," says Combs. "But on a [...]

(onlineathens.com) - The Georgia State Firefighters Association has recently recognized Athens-Clarke County Department Lt. Jacob Jones for being selected as a recipient of the 2017 Life Saving Valor Award. On Feb. 11, fire units dispatched to a laundry room fire. First on the scene, Jones was informed the fire was in [...]

(Loganville Patch) - It was a busy Labor Day for Gwinnett County firefighters, who responded to two house fires and what appeared to be a live grenade discovered at a local Goodwill on Monday. The grenade-like device was found by an employee at the Goodwill of North Georgia at Hamilton Mill [...]

(macon.com) - At the City Council meeting, the firefighters were given the city’s Lifesaving Valor Award as well as a valor award from the Georgia State Firefighters Association for the rescue at Lenox Pointe apartments on Karl Drive on April 9. “It was a tremendous job by all of these guys,” Fire Chief [...]

(Savannah Now) - More than 40 local soldiers have been sent to Texas to support federal disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey brought “catastrophic” flooding to Houston and severe damage across the state’s coast. The soldiers, who serve in the Fort Stewart-based 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion of the U.S. Army’s 35th [...]

(Reuters) - The mayday call went out near midnight to all members of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department organizing rescue operations in the outskirts of Houston. There was a new emergency: Four of their own in peril. On a suburban street transformed into a rushing waterway by Tropical Storm Harvey, a [...]